
Opinion & Essay
Trump’s immigration Olympics: The art of the flip flop flip
Donald Trump’s anti-immigrant speech predictably garnered boffo reviews. Ex-Klan leader David Duke said the 75-minute harangue was ...
9 years ago
This is what I’m doing while you are asleep
I don’t know if it is due to an undesirable hereditary trait or some kind of chemical change, but insomnia seems to have attacked my sy ...
9 years ago
The political impact of the Dougherty probe
Philadelphia’s political world was shaken this month when FBI agents raided the home and offices of powerful electricians union lea ...
9 years ago
ListenTrump visits Mexico today. What could possibly go wrong?
The Republican presidential nominee visits Mexico today, to meet briefly with President Enrique Pena Nieto and buttress his credentials a ...
9 years ago
When the chef is better off ordering Chinese take-out
When Mrs. Smithson asked me to cook them "an authentic Chinese dinner," I couldn't say no. How could I tell them that I was almost 23 but had never learned to boil water?
9 years ago
Candidates clash in Bucks County congressional debate
The two candidates for that hotly contested congressional race in Bucks County went at each other Tuesday in the first debate of a campai ...
9 years ago
ListenCatholics detest Trump, Catholics decide elections. Do the math.
We’ve talked a lot this year about women voters, Hispanic voters, and white college-educated voters, slicing and dicing the elector ...
9 years ago
The future — and predicting it — ‘ain’t what it used to be’
We want to know what to expect so we can prepare for it. It's more important than ever to get reliable information about what to expect, because the world is changing fast.
9 years ago
Poll shows Trump close, Toomey ahead in Pa.
A new poll shows Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump trailing Democrat Hillary Clinton by only 3 points in Pennsylvania, 46 to ...
9 years ago
Colin Kaepernick, Dwayne from Swedesboro, and the truth about race in sports
Race stands at the intersection of media and sports in America. If that truth has ever been in question, the events of the last week shou ...
9 years ago
Balancing the unbalanceable: Four media false equivalence classics
Back in early May, I predicted that the mainstream media’s “objectivity” rituals would kick in as autumn neared, “ ...
9 years ago
Solutions across ideological lines are closer than we think
Ask any Pennsylvanian what he or she wants in life, and the answers will probably be remarkably similar: a great job, freedom to make cho ...
9 years ago
This year’s Barrymore Award nominations cite 41 productions
A musical from Norristown’s Theatre Horizon and a drama from South Philadelphia’s Theatre Exile — the stage companies t ...
9 years ago
Feds seek records from Kenney’s campaign fund
Federal investigators looking into powerful Philadelphia labor leader John Dougherty have sought documents from Mayor Jim Kenney’s ...
9 years ago
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